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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
NOVEMBER.

In n boarding house at Newark New Jersey,
the sight OF n single roast chicken for seven
hungry men caused n fight with knives, in which
two men were stabbed the table was wrecked,
and the supper stTewn over the floor. Chas.
Williams of White River, Canada, found Rich
ard O'Brien in company with his wife, and pro-
ceeded to horsewhip the interloper, but the
latter shot Williams dead, then killed Williams
aged father and mother and two little children,
after which he stabbed Mrs Will Jams and set
the house on FIRE the woman lived long enough
to tell the authorities of q Briens crime, and he
was arrested. Beni. WHEELER, of Cleveland, o.,
aged 81, was held for numbering his wife, aged
81 the couple posse ssed $4,000, and il is be-
leved that in Il quarrel touching his wife's will
the old man strangltd her; he Insisted that the
deed was done by robbers. Rhodes Clements,
of Havensylle. Kan, suddenly became n raw
ing maniac, killed Samuel Gordon, cut off his
head, and devoured his heart, lungs, and liver
Clements was jailed Justice Scott of the llli-
nois Supreme Court. granted n supersedeas in
the of the Chicago anarchists rs the court
will not sit until March, the execution set for
December can not take place until the
spring of 1887. Nine youths were sentenced TO
death ut Sydney, N S. W., for committing II
criminal assault upon II 15-year-old servant girl.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
Arguing with n BOlter.

In the early days, when politics was
rather rough, Bill Carr was famous as
manipulated. During the fight for
Broderick for Senator there was one
leg slator who gave great deal of
trouble. He had been engaged to
both sides, and even then refused to
stay put, and Broderick had made up
his mind that the traitor would go into
caucus against him. His vote was a
d niger, and several consultations were
had. At last Carr lost all patience and
said: "You have wasted more time on
that man than he's worth. Leave him
to me, and I'll guarantee he won't vote
in this caucus.
1t was so agreed, and Carr laid his
plans. He put half a dozen men on
the roof of an unfinished house, from
which depended block and tackle,
and gave them orders TO haul away
when he said hoist. Then he de .oyed
the frail one beneath the rope, and
hastily throwing moose round his
waist yelled out: Haul away" The
boys pulled with will, and in few
seconds the delegate was on the roof,
and Carr walked off, after saying: "If
he makes a noise pitch him of, and say
he fell off,"
The caucus came, and scouts we're
sent out in all directions for the miss
ing one, who could not be found, and
in his absence Frederick won the fight.
The member was kept on the roof till
midnight, and then given a chance to
sneak out of town.-Sdn Francisco
Post.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
October.

The people of Quincy Fla, lynched two men
suspected Of firing new mill Masked men at
Steelville, Mo, lynched r. Il. Wallace, the al
legged murderer of the Logan family of FIVE per-
sons-father, mother and three children Other
culpr1ts who fell victims to mob law during Oc-
tober were Tom Farrar II negro who assaulted
Miss Lizzie Murray and afterward murdered
her father ut Throckmorton Texas Thomas
Israel, n negro for brutally assauting ten
year-old white girl at Rocky Ford, Ga. Vigil
lantes of Montrose, Col, took from Jail noto-
rious man-slayer named John McLees, and
hanged him to Il gate-beHm. Masked men mt
Monticello Ill, took out of Jail and hanged
Henry Wildman, IL wife-murderer. Three ne
groes in Pickens County, Alabama, suspected
of Notwithstanding up. James Haynes, a
murderer taken from Jail at Brownsville,
Miss, and hanged ali parties-the murdered
victim, lyncheIs, and lynehed-colored. A mu-
latto named Hewey quarreled with Samuel Day
over four pounds of cotton at Bad Springs
by bloodhounds, captured and suspended to a
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
Murders with Malice Af0rGthOught,
Killing in the Heat Of Passion,
and EXCuSable HOMiCidGS.
The Legal Executions of the Year-The
Hangman's Moose Claims a
Long List OF Victims.
The Lynchings of Twelvemonth-Mob
Violence Claims Large Num-
Der of Victims.
THE MURDER RECORD.
n CHASTITY Array of Crimes Against Law
and Society.
JANUARY.

pug" 0Leary, Of Chicago, pleaded guilty TO
the murder of his sister and mistress, and was
sentenced to Joliet prison for forty years. John
G. Stevens President of the Pennsylvania Rail
way system in New jersey shot himself, owing
60 financial difficulties. At Battle Greek, Mich,
che dead bodies of DIR. Martin White, his wife,
and two children We're discovered by neigh
bors who forced the doors il was believed that
White killed the others and committed
suicide. Jacob Reel, a wealthy farmer
his parlor because OF the arrest OF
his eldest son for homicide. Six convicts,
who escaped from the Coal Hill Ark mine,
were brought back by James johnson, an old
asleep In haystack; Johnson was armed with
q double-barreled shotgun one of the barrels
being useless. John Magee was sentenced by n
London court TO seven years penal servitude
for an attempt to blackmail the Prince OF
Wales James Bait, n saloon-keeper at Akron,
Ohio, purchased for 5 cents tho handsome
wife of Newell Stratton and lived hap
PLY with her until the law interfered.
For the murder of his mother, sister, and broth
er, William Sheehan was hanged at Cork, Ire
land the crime committed in 1877 to obtain
possession of some property, and Sheehan was
arrested in New Zealand. A party of cowboys
from the Red River section, bent on having "a
good time" invaded Burlington, Texas; they
enjoyed themselves hugely, firing promiscu-
ously, until posse OF citizens under Sheriff
Cooke drove them away killing four of the des-
peradoes A quadrangular duel at Manche ter,
KY, resulted in the death of all tho partlci-
pants-young farmers who quarreled about a
woman of ill-repute liquor inspired the trag-
edy. Harvey Hadlock, Portland Me- lad,
killed himself with revolver, in his fathers
presence, rather than be sent away TO school.
-Four members of Polish revolutionary orga-
niZation were executed at Warsaw. Jack Han
ion and Jack Crowley fought n duel at Houston,
Texas, in fit of jealousy, and both were
killed
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
Equal to Mark Twain's Frog.

An old gentleman at Tewkesbury for
many years rode blind horse. Though
sightless, the steed, which had proba-
bly, been a good fencer once, had
learned to Jump whenever he received
hint that he was desired to do so.
One day, after run with the hounds,
some hunting men were talking in the
bar of the hotel about jumps, and the
owner of the blind horse stoutly main
tanned that that an NAL would Jump
over a single obstacle which none of
their hunters would leap. He was ready
to back his words with money, and, as
the result of the conversation, he made
four bets of 60 each on the sub ;ect.
Very soon the four sportsmen repented
of risking their money so rasbly. The
owner of the blind horse put down a
straw in the street, and this constituted
the obstacle. He rode up to it, and the
blind steed, responding to his call,
"rose at the rasper," clearing it with a
bound four feet in the air, and cover
ing twelve feet of ground at least.
None of the other four horses would
rise at straw, and the owner OF the
blind horse was go the richer. Eng
ESH I01pT
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
JULY.

Jenkins Wright, negro, suffered death at
the ropes end for wife murder, ut Hampton, S.
c.. the culprit threw his victims body into II
fire. Other hangings noted during torrid July
We're Frank CASTOR. colored, at Salisbury, N
g., for criminal assault upon n white woman.
Dock Bishop ut Cotfeyyille, Miss, for the muir
der Of Detective Wise. Sam Archer, one of n
family of desperadoes, at Shoals, Ind, for the
murder OF Samuel A. Bunch; Sam Archer's
death ended the career of the fifth of n gang of
wretches who hnd been guilty of many crimes.
lu the Toni lbs at New York. Miguel Chacon q
Cuban negro persisted on the scaffold for kill
ing his paranour while trying TO murder her
husband james Dacey ut Woodstock Ill,
for the murder Of Alderman Gaynor, of Chicago.
-Four Southern negro murdorers were hanged on
the l6th-Samson Roland and George Solomon
at Donaldsonville, La, George Harrison Mt
Shreveport La, and Richard Townsend at Val
dosta, Ga. Lincoln Sprole and Calvin James
were hanged at Forth Smith, Ark, for murders
committed in the Indian Territory: since 1871,
forty six men have been hanged at that place
murderer named Joseph Jump executed
at Gallatin, Mo, in the presence Of 20 600 people
Andrew Green, who Killed street-car driver
was hanged ut Denver, confessing his crime on
the scattold. George Moore was hanged at
Charlotte, y. c., for assault upon his daughter !;
he protested his innocence to the last
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
Colerjdge's FOur Cinsses.

The readers Coleridge has divided into
four classes. He says: "The first class
of readers may be compared to an hour
glass, their reading being as the sand !;
it runs in and runs out, leaving not n
vestige behind \ second class resem-
bles sponge, which imbibes everything
aud returns it in nearly the same state.
A third class is like ielly-bag, which
allows al that is pure to pass away and
retains only the refuse and dregs. he
fourth class may be compared to the
slave of Golconda. who, casting aside
all that is worthless, preserves only the
pure gems" 1t is to be feared that in
the present day the greatest number of
readers belong to the first of these
classes The amount read is something
almost fabulous, Lut the results are
comparatively tri ling.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
APRIL.

Louis p. Schmidt, of Freeport Ill., who had
been expelled from the Knights of Labor for
disclosing secrets Of the order, hanged him
self at Davenport, Iowa. The Earl Of
ehaftesbury committed suicide in London by
shooting himself; he was the eighth Earl Of
6haftesbury, succeeding Oct. l, 1885, TO the
title on the death of his father, the noted philan
thropist. Five murderers in Indian Territory
escaped the gallows by Communication of their
sentence to life imprisonment in the Detroit
House Of Correction three of the party killed n
peddler for plug of tobacco. Burmese rebels
captured the British station ut Meegandet
bound the garrison with cords, and massacred
twenty -three persons. In Seward County Kan
'sas Fritz Rupin, u half-witted farm hand, as
aaulted the vile of his employer, Mrs. jacob
Freimuth, and killed both her and her unborn
babe the husband was absent ut the time and
when he beheld the mutilated bodies he became
q raving maniac and suicided with shotgun
posse OF neighbors pursued and captured Ru-
pin, who was tied by the neck TO a fractions
horse and dragged for miles over the prairie
Che body of the wretch was left uncovered
where the exhausted horse fell.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
DECEMBER.

The town of BRENNAN, Texas, was invaded at
midnight by n masked mob who took from the
Jail Shea Fielder. Alfred Jones and Ephraim
Jones tmurderersD, who were found next morn
ing hanging TO tree George Parks and Mon
roe Smith, colored. charged with incendiarism,
Were lynched at Ringgold, Ga. james Howard,
of Bowie County, Texas, who branded his IL
year-old wife with the letter H, was taken
from Jail and lynched by his neighbour. Near
Harmony, Ga Frank Sanders butchered John
Swilling, his wife, and three children-his pur-
pose being to secure so; he hanged
by the neighbors Of his victims. Factor
Jones and Dick Bullock murderers were rid
died with bullets by their neghbors in the
Choctaw Nation VIM. Mussels. murderer WAS
suspended from au electrc-ligLt tower by lead
ing citizens of Eaton. o.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
APRIL.

JEFF Wilson, colored man, was worked off by
the Sheriff ut Lexington, Mo, on the I'd. for tho
murder of his mistress. Robt. J. Phillips, a
colored wife-murderer, was executed at Indian
apolis on the sth. On the 18th Sheriffs worked
off Allen J. Adams at Amherst, Mass. for the
murder. in 1875, OF his employer, an aged farm
er-Adams spent ten years after his crime as a
dssoiute tramp, confessed in drunken brawl,
and convicted Camille Gonzales, n Mexi-
can robber, at Bracket, Texas, for the murder
OF Peter johnson, a ranchman; and Chas Rob
inson icoloredl at Newcastle, Del, for outrage.
Robt. Smith (colored), aged TO- suffered death ut
Nicholasville, KY, for the murder of his stop
father, James Sea- the culprit sold his body TO
surgeons for SIS, which he expended for fruit
On the 23d Robt. Fowler was hanged at Nor
garfield, Ky. for the murder Of Miss Lydia
Burnett. who had refused his hand in marriage.
On the same day the gallows at Fort Smith,
Ark, was used seventy first time in twelve
years. in the execution OF James WATSON and
Joseph Jackson, for murders committed in the
Indian Territory. On the 30th and last day of
the month the hangman closed the earthly
career of ]. NJ. Armstrong at PerTyville, Ark,
George Carroll at Searcy, in the same State,
Richard J. Lee and Louis Somerheld at Wash
ngton, ID c., and James Walker at Augustine.
Fla. Giuseppe Soma, an italian, convicted Of
the murder of one of his countrymen. cheated
the hangman by suiciding In his cell at Hudson,
n Y
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
FEBRUARY.

Fines of 81 each were imposed upon thirty
three Cincinnati actors who performed on Sun
day. In n Waco TEX. hotel j. r. Graham, St
Louis drummer, got the drop on n rival from
Chicago, and the latter was killed the deceased
Wm. lamb had declared that "a man who
travelled for II st. Louis house was no good"
Chesley Chambers, noted criminal who
armed with n club assaulted n baggage-master
and an express messenger and robbed the safe
on q passenger train near Bloomington, Ind,
was sentenced TO two years imprisonment At
Newcastle, Del. with the mercury in the
neighborhood of zero, five thieves We're
dashed on their bare backs, and II forger
was placed in the pillory for hour
Mrs. Mary Branchu suicided in a sensational
manner by jumping from High Bridge, New
York, to the ice below, 100 feet; every bone in
her body was broken. Unemployed" men in
London besieged the authorities for relief and
this not being granted, a mob of 10000 rioters
pillaged shops, broke windows, and hustled
well-to-do citizens about, destroying property to
the value of 100000 A French merchant and
his wife suicided at Monte Carlo, after heavy
losses at gambling; the lady drowned herself
and her husband then blew out his brains.
Theodore =. Rich, OF Cobleskill, n Y, tracked
his wife to ST. Paul, whittier she had eloped,
and on coming up with her he killed her and
then Suicided.
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Wouldn't Have IL.

Physician--You are a very sick man,
Colonel, and I'm going to prescribe for
you. Let me see-five drops of capsi-
cum In a gill of water. You will
take"
The Colonel Observation-Disclosures
bath, is it?
Physician-Oh, no. This is to be
taken internally. You will take"
The Colonel again interruptine )-
Never, Doctor, never.
Physician But you must.
The Colonel (emphatically) Never,
sir Do you want to kill me? Con-
found it, sir, haven't taken that much
water in my whole life!
And then the Colonel TUNED his face
to the wall and defiantlv whistled "Old
Kentucky Home. "-Pittsbairgh Dis
nnfpH
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
SEPTEMBER.

Edward Myers, of St Louis. who stole 81, 500
from his employer and fled to Hamilton, Ont,
was sentenced to six months imprisonment for
bringing stolen money into Canada. The
Bishop of Tonquin telegraphed that 700 Chris
tians had been massacred and forty villages
burned in the province of Manhoa,
and that 1900 Christians were perishing
of hunger The public eYecutioner of Greece
was convicted OF murder and condemned
To death. At Kingston, n. j., James keevan,
aged 50, was murdered while eating upper the
remains being found seated ut n table with n
knife and fork in the lifeless hands. George NJ.
Bartholomew, President of the Charter Oak
Life Insurance Company, disappeared from
Hartford owing various banks and corporations
-, 100000. At Canton China, n woman charged
with poisoning her husband and three relatives,
shown thdt she was innocent of the otfense, but
the people elamored for her death, which the
Niceroy finally ordered.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
MARCH,

On the 5th, Clarence Gray alias Isham Col
Inns. was hanged mt Wnnemucca, New, for the
murder OF X. H. Scott, while attempting TO rob
the latters store Patrick Ford and John Muir
ply, New Orleans politicians, were hanged at
the Crescent City on the 18th for the murder OF
Captain A. H. Murphy: the Louisiana Board of
Pardons refused Co yield TO n petition Of %, 1856
citizens for the release of the culprits, who
sought to escape tire gallows by taking poison,
but we're partially revived and worked of by the
sheriff ut the appointed hour Louis O'Neil
suffered the death penalty at Jacksonville, Orc
gon, for the murder of Lewis Mcdaniel On the
26th, Frank Mulkowsky, the murderer OF Mrs.
Agnes kledzieck, expiated his crime in the jail
yard ut Chicago. protesting his innocence TO the
last moment. negro named John Drake WAS
executed at Thomaston, Ga for the murder OF
his wife and the cremation Of her corpse.
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Not Generally known.

The Japanese Prince is handsome
But, girls, he is married. Same here.
All of us handsome men are married.
flashing ION Post.
A Burlington girl, who is a great
talker, SAYS il is better TO be engaged
in conversation than not at all.-Buf''
Hngton Free Press.
Some Americans are too proud to beg
and too honest to steal, so they get
trusted. -BOStOn Post.
A Newly orker shot at his wife, but
the bullet hit nothing but her store hair.
1t is very hard to get at the exact
boundaries of a woman nowadays. -
omaha World.
The royal family always wears its
trousers turned up at the bottom, be-
cause it is reigning in England. = LIE.
No gentleman should smoke when
walking with ladies, nor should lady
smoke when walking with gentleman.
-helo HdUen NelDs.
Albert-Your inquiry reveals that You
are young married man. Att women
have cold feet, and it is believed by sci
entists that they enjoy having them
Philadelphia CAL.
Richard had no sooner declared that
he was himself again than Richmond
came along and knocked him out. 1t
would have been money in Di ks pocket
if he had remained somebody else
Puck.
A New York doctor says that men
who have the headache are the most
sympathetic. If there was ever a man
with the headache who cared a copper
how soon the whole world stubbed it's
toe and broke its nose he ought to
be put on exhibition. Detroit f. ee
Press
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
DECEMBER.

Chas. Snodgrass, employed in n clothing
house at Cynthiana, Ky, committed suicide by
taking morphine because he was accused Of
stealing So his aged father dropped dead when
he heard the sad news. j. :. Conelison, n
Louisville Ky attorney, was given three years
in Jail for cowhidng Judge Reid at Mt. Ster-
ling, who afterward took his own life from
modification. William Reed was sfot and
killed at English, Ind, by Ben Smith, in dis
pute over the proper spelling OF a word. Emily
Brown, white woman of Baltimore, was muir
dered by two negroes, whose sole object was TO
sell the corpse TO IA medical college. The legis-
lators of the Seminole Indians passed n law
Furnishing stealing by fifty lashes for the first
ofense and hanging for the fourth. James
Howell fatally shot James Graham ut Utica,
n. Y, because lhe said Graham cheated him
out of four dollars.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05

Or il English literature be more at
tractiye-.as it undoubtedly is to the
great majority-how soon would one
become familiar with Milton or Shak-
speare, Bacon or Macaulay. If few
sentences were read and considered
daily.
Above all things it is important that
one should read systematically, and not
be guided by chance. Have always a
good book, a standard work, that will
repay careful study, at hand, and to
that devote a part of the time that may
be set apart for reading. Before open
ing the book recall as fully as possible
what was read the day before, and on
closing it see by reflection how many
of the thoughts of the author you have
made your own, and SO cultivate men,
ory.-BOstOn transcript.
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JUDGE lLYNCH'S WORK.
Victims of Mob Violence and Their Crimes
Hangings, Shootings, and Burnings.
JANUARY.

Two negroes-Emmett Key and Nat Forbes
entered the house of +. 7. Carroll in Sunfower
County, Mississippi, and asked for some apples !;
wants they drove n Ratchet into his head, then
took 1900 and II watch from his person; the Gull
prits were captured and suspended from u
bridge. At the Schuyler lNeb.D Jail prisoner
n piece Of scantling; Latour was taken from
the Jail and hanged by mob. Holly Epps,
colored, was taken from jail at Vincennos, Ind,
and hanged by party of twenty men from
Greene County, where the culprit killed Far
mer Dobson and att mpted to assault his wife.
Sidney Brown (colored was strung up 1t Roche
dale. Texas, for the murder of farmer named
Ford. Calvin Simpson, mulatto, for the bru-
tai murder of Mrs. Graves in Henderson Coun-
", kentucky, was taken from Jail and hanged.
Citizens of Susanyille, Cal, hanged in the
courthouse yard two convicted murderers, an
Indian and Mexican, named Dick and Olnas.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-05
NOVEMBER.

Samuel Purple surrendered to the Sheriff of
Hodgeman County, Kansas, after killing his
wife and two children; but mob took him out
OF Jail and hanged him TO a tree. Other culprits
upon whom lynch law was visited during the
month were: Andrew J. Mulligan, alias James
Page, at Harrison, Ark, for murder Charles
Dinwiddie, ut Mckenzie Tenn, robbery Elias
Simmons cOlored, sho5 to death while asleep at
Minden. La. John Davis, colored, nc Randolph,
Ala, for repeated criminal assaults upon white
women. Three incendiaries who burned Il cot
ton gin house in Franklin County, Miss, were
lost in the woods" while being taken to Jail.
Four negro murderers were strung up in the
Choctaw Nation for killing George Traafe who
came upon them while they were cleaning q
hog they had stolen. Caesar Robinson was
hanged by n mob at Florence, $. c., for assault
uDon a white woman
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MARCH.

Eli Bearden, of Harriston, Ark, who was
twice sentenced to be hanged for the murder Of
q neighbor acquitted on the third trial !;
his cost the State $4,000. Edward John
SON alias Allen Wright, had quarrel with his
employer, Henry c. Steadman, on farm near
Lyons, Neb. ; Steadman was killed, and John
son was pursued and took refuge i'll barn which
he defended against 800 men who joined in the
chase the desperate killed Chas Z. Johnson
and fatally wounded Edgar Everett; then the
barn was set afire, and when it subsidized John
son was found partly cremated and his body
riddled with bullets In quarrel over
alleged understanding in the vicinity Of Fort
Elliott. Tex. four men belonging to the Lone
Star Ranch were killed and two wounded At
the funeral of Frank Mulkowski, Chicago
murderer from Polish church. married sis
Ter rode on the hearse to the cemetery beside
the driver Three desperadoes confined in the
Newcastle pa Jail filed the locks OFF their cells
and escaped through hole SX16 inches cut in q
window